Botswana's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing

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Language

English

Country

Botswana

Topic

Mutual Evaluations

Follow-Up Report Botswana 2022

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Overall, Botswana has made progress progress in resolving the technical compliance shortcomings identified in its MER and FURs.

The country has addressed the deficiencies in respect of the following Recommendations which have been re-rated as follows:

Recommendation 8 (initially rated NC) is re-rated to Partially Compliant
Recommendation 25 (initially rated PC) is re-rated to Largely Compliant
Recommendation 25 (initially rated PC) is re-rated to Largely Compliant

Botswana will remain in enhanced follow-up and will continue to inform the ESAAMLG of the progress made in improving the implementation of its AML/CFT measures

Technical Compliance

Ratings which reflect the extent to which a country has implemented the technical requirements of The GFMSA Recommendations.

Botswana Follow-Up Report 2022

IO1: LE
IO2: ME
IO3: LE
IO4: LE
IO5: LE
IO6: ME
IO7: LE
IO8: LE
IO9: LE
IO10: LE
IO11: LE

C = compliant | LC = largely compliant | PC = partially compliant | NC = non-compliant

Earlier reports

6 Aug 2021

Follow-Up Report to Botswana's assessment of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures This follow-up report analyses the progress of Botswana in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER.
18 Feb 2021

Botswana's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing This follow-up report analyses the progress Botswana made in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its 2017 MER and 2019 FUR.
22 Aug 2019

Botswana's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing This follow-up report analyses the progress Botswana made in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER.
12 Oct 2017

Botswana's measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing This report provides a summary of the AML/CFT measures in place in Botswana as at the date of the on-site visit 13-24 June 2016.

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